World Quotes - Page 1005

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.

False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.

O who would trust this world, or prize what's in it, That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev'ry minute?

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

The world's an Inn; and I her guest.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

We live in a world where people say that you can believe anything you want about God.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.

It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill

What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.

I had left graduate school, determined that I wasn't going to do anything else to "save the world" until I understood how I could get at the underlying causes of deepening suffering. To do that, I had to start by admitting that I didn't know.